May 15
Following the Technology Strategy Board’s announcement in March of its “Long-term care revolution” call for sandpit participants, the Ageing Research Special Interest Group at Northumbria are planning to hold a two-hour workshop for staff who’ve expressed an interest in the call and potential applicants. This will take place on 22nd May in City Campus, Lipman Building, Room 035 between …
Mar 15
The AHRC this week announced a new highlight notice for their Research Grants (both standard and early career routes) on Connected Communities and Design. Applications can be up to £1.5M FEC for standard grants and up to £250K for the early career route. What are they looking for? They’re looking for projects which intersect across …
Mar 14
Professor Rick Rylance (AHRC Chief Executive and Chair of RCUK Executive Group) recently visited Northumbria University to deliver a research policy seminar in which he outlined his vision on the future of research, gave some insight into current government policy on research, and outlined several principles which guide research council investments. The following are brief …
Feb 04
Northumbria University runs a regular series of informal research meetings to bring together staff from across the campus who might have common or compatible interests. Hosted by the PVC Research and Innovation, Professor Peter Golding, the aim of the Research Forum is to give people a chance to find out about cognate research to their …
Aug 31
You may remember back in Spring this year the Design Council and AHRC jointly invited the design research community to comment on barriers and opportunities to funding and to highlight gaps in design research. This consultation has now concluded and an initial scoping study [PDF] has been produced outlining the key findings and suggesting possible future …
Jul 30
Hot on the heels of the Design for Wellbeing: Ageing and Mobility in the Built Environment call released a couple of months ago, the Medical Research Council (MRC) and Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) have jointly released two major new calls for research on the theme of Extending Working Lives: Extending Working Lives: Research …
May 23
The AHRC has issued a call for research grants within the theme of Care for the Future. This call specifically focuses on arts and humanities led research which provides new insights on the challenges of enviornmental change and sustainability through a “temporally-inflected lens”: Care for the Future Highlight Notice [PDF] This is another of AHRC’s …
May 03
EPSRC and ESRC have issued a joint call for research consortia to explore current and future challenges in cyber security: Consortia for Exploratory Research in Security – EPSRC The call is part of the research councils’ Global Uncertainties Programme which seeks to examine and understand the causes of insecurity and predict, prevent and manage security risks …
Apr 13
The AHRC’s Connected Communities programme is hosting a research development workshop on 22nd – 24th May at Paintworks in Bristol. The theme is communities, cultures, environments and sustainability and the workshop is being hosted in collaboration with the Living With Environmental Change cross-council research partnership. The workshop brief [PDF] has full details, but participants will be expected to …
Feb 14
The next Northumbria Research Forum will take place on Friday 24th February, on the theme of Climate and the Environment. Climate change and its impact on the way we live may well be the most pressing issue facing humankind. Research into ways of living, social and physical planning of our environment, legal, technological, environmental and social aspects of climate …
